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HIGH LIFE
Oct. 12, 1971
HIGH LIFE’S EDITORIAL POLICY
Ever wonder just who is saying
what when you read the editorial
page of a newspaper? We can't
speak for other papers, but we can
present a few principles which guide
our staff as they seek out and edit
material for the editorial page.
Occasionally, we "goof," like
leaving off the initials of a writer
or letting a questionable point slip
by or saying something which ap
pears harmless to us but may be
irritating to someone else.
When we do, we are sorry. After
all, we aim to please, but beyond
that, we aim to inform, to present
truth, to provoke constructive
change, to praise, to present crea
tive excellence, to help Grimsiey re
main the greatest school in town.
The following points generally
sum up our editorial policy.
Most editorials are written by
our editorial board members,
whose names appear on the
masthead and whose initials
follow the editorials.
Guest editorials are solicited
from other staff members or
outsiders and are indicated
by full name and title at end
of article.
All editorials (and everything
else in the paper) are checked
carefully by our advisor be
fore they go to print. Occa
sionally, they are sent to Mr.
Glenn for his okay before
they are published.
Letters to the editor will be
printed without editing as
long as they are timely, not
painfully derogatory, legible,
signed, and space permits.
Letters to the editor are an
swered only if an answer is
necessary and constructive.
The views of editorialists are
not necessarily those of the
staff. However, the staff and
advisor do not wish to print
anything which offends some
one else.
Woodstock Nation
Campus Mood For The Year?
P. B. Library Revisited
By Gene Montegomery
One of the best ideas at Grims
iey has been the establishment of
the paperback library. This was a
project last year by student volun
teers for the benefit of all the stu
dents. It allowed us to read books
we might not have found in the
regular library. New books such as
We Are Everywhere and Future
Shock could be found there.
But, to make the paperback li
brary successful this year, we, the
student body, must adopt four im
portant standards:
(1) We must support the library
by devoting our time and efforts to
serve as assitants. The library needs
students to watch for thefts and to
keep the books organized.
(2) We must support the library
by giving our used paperback books.
It is a bargain to give the library
Letters To The
Editor
Dear Editors:
I think your remaks on the
marching band were cute but not
too fair to the members of the
marching band. Because of busing
we are forced to have only one full
practice a week. In this practice we
have to work with the Whirling
Boots, learn our formations, and get
ready to give the program on the
following day. I think we should get
some consideration for what we
have done—at least for what we try
to do.
J. L. Pitts
Senior, '72
one book so that you will have the
opportunity to read hundreds of
others.
(3) We must stop stealing books.
I realize the students who steal
books probably don't know how to
read and write, so this editorial will
not reach them. (Honestly, anyone
who gets such a big kick out of rip
ping off a book must have the in
telligence of a plant!) So, if you
know of anybody who is stealing
books, give them a hand and read
this to them.
(4) We must fight authoritarian
censorship. We don't want a library
full of "porno" books, but we do
need the right to determine which
books we want in our library. The
decisions should be ours.
The library can be a success if
everyone will help, but if it fails, it
will only serve as an example for
those who feel that high school stu
dents are irresponsible.
By Rorin Platt
As the new academic year begins
its nine month tenure, thousands
of anxious students, parents, facul
ty members, and administration of-
ficals await the unpredictable tone
of the so-called "campus mood."
Will 1971-72 bring another wave
of campus disruptions and violence?
Can our sacred academic institu
tions survive the constant threats
from the "New Left" to politicize
the universities?
According to a recent report of
the American Council on Educa
tion, there was less chaos during
last year's academic period, but
neither "calm" nor "tranquillity"
best describes their true condition.
New findings of the ACE say that
campus disturbances declined only
just beneath the level of the 1968-
69 year. The reason for this obvious
discrepancy is that forty percent of
our colleges and universities re
ceived national news media cover
age during that time, and last year,
only ten percent did.
Maybe this year a rational and
peaceful academic community will
avert the news media's efforts to ex
ploit the image of academia as a
hotbed of radicalism and pernicious
nihilism. The "Silent Majority" of
college students has only itself to
blame if it stands idly by while the
SDS and other revolutionary groups
terrorize the campus and disrupt its
essential functions.
There can be no academic free
dom for anyone if order and justice
cease to prevail. Students who vio
late the rights of others by disrupt
ing classes or gatherings, or who
prevent free access to campus
buildings and facilities should be
severely disciplined by an admini
stration free from pressure of im
mediate political considerations.
Excellent examples of administa-
tion impotence were the cancella
tions of classes and final exams at
many universities during the "Mor
atoriums" of peace during the
spring of 1970.
Columbia, Berkeley, and San
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of the "New Left" spread their au
thoritarian sectarianist ideas inside
the ivory towers of "Truth" and
"Reason," with the outright approv
al of numerous radical-liberal fac
ulties and administrators. These
same people would shudder if the
reverse type of "McCarthy-ism"
were directed toward them.
One need not require the intelli
gence of an Einstein to detect the
Machiavellian nature of most uni
versities to present only one point
of view at open forums and panel
discussions, biased textbooks, and
lecture series consisting wholely of
celebrated liberal and radical
spokesmen.
Politics does indeed have strange
bedfellows, for both the Young Peo
ple's Socialist League and the
Young Americans for Freedom op
pose the anarchist tendencies of
the "Movement" and their outrage
ous efforts to impose their totali
tarian ideologies upon the student
populace. Both groups reject the
idea of a university assuming the
role of a political institution and
holding political views in the name
of its students or faculty.
It is indeed tragically ironic that
the same students who so vehem
ently condemn, and rightly so, the
evils of fascism, should engage in
the same type of academic politi
calization exercised by Italian and
German fascist students some forty
years ago.
Today some universities have
actually expressed their disapproval
of the American participation in
the Indo-Chinese war by issuing
declarations to that effect, suspend
ing classes and offering university
facilities to ahti-war students (i. e.,
phones, offices, computers, etc.).
Tomorrow they will pledge their un
daunted allegiance to some starry-
eyed idealistic Liberal Presidential
aspirant who promises peace and
prosperity in the '70's. Maybe they
will lend their hearts to a George
Wallace or an Adolph Hitler.
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Register To Vote In Your College Town? high life
It is probable that most of the
students at Grimsiey now will vote
in their first election when they
are in college. As it stands, these
future college students will be re
quired to vote in their parents' vot
ing district (unless they are attend
ing school in one of the sixteen
states that have proclaimed that a
student may register in his college's
voting district.
The most obvious and maybe the
most important reason for a stu
dent to be able to register and vote
in his college town is the availabili
ty of his ballot. If a student lives
far from his hometown, it will be an
all day adventure just to get to the
polls and back to the campus. For
many students, it could be an ex
pensive trip, or the election could
be on a day that he has his chemis
try final exam.
The purpose in registering in the
district in which you live is so you
can get to the polls and vote with
out having to make special arrange
ments. Making the college student
vote at his parents' home complete
ly defeats the purpose.
It seems that where the 18-20
year-old's vote is not a problem in
state or national elections, but it is
in town and county elections that
the concern grows.
The non-student residents of col
lege towns have always had com
plete control over the town and over
the students as well. The students
are not considered part of the
town's population by the town's
"regular" citizens, but the students
do spend three-fourths of every
year around the campus and the
town. The students have as much
right to decide about the affairs of
their town as any permanent resi
dent in the town.
One other question that may
arise in students' voting in town
elections is how to tax the students:
the only tax the students miss pay
ing is the property tax. In towns
where the citizens are affected by
this, the college could register the
voting students and then tax the
registered ones.
W. W.
Published Biweekly
by
Grimsiey Senior High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, N. C 27410
Editors-in-Chief J. B. Parrett
Winthrop Watson
Business Manager . . Carolyn Tyer
Editorial Staff .... Butch Algood
Rorin Platt, Parke Puterbaugh
Brian Shaw
Art Editor James Tingen
Photographer Bill Perkins
Faculty Advisor
Mrs. Rachel Morton